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Get latest articles and stories on Science at LatestLY. Each year, more than 3 million people in the United States suffer from peripheral neuropathy, a condition in which nerves outside of the brain and spinal cord are destroyed, resulting in pain and loss of feeling in the afflicted areas. Diabetes, injuries, genetically inherited disease, infection, and other factors can all cause peripheral neuropathy. Science News | Researchers Give Insight into Repairing Nerve Cells After Injury, in Chronic Disease.

Bitcoin mining uses huge amounts of water and the problem is growing, according to a new analysis.

The gene-editing technology CRISPR shows early promise as a therapeutic strategy for the aggressive and difficult-to-treat brain cancer known as primary glioblastoma, according to findings of a new study from Gladstone Institutes.

Lidocaine-;often used as numbing agent for outpatient medical procedures-;activates certain bitter taste receptors through two unique mechanisms that result in cancer cell death, according to researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

The team hopes that the discovery will pave the way for more effective treatments to aggressive forms of cancer in the future.